"Miss Rin... Please, keep it down." A nurse ushered.
I opened my eyes, sighing. It had only been a few minutes since I woke up here, but I already felt tired. The doctor had told me to rest in bed, so I tried my best to sleep. However, Rin the Chatterbox refused to give me the peaceful silence I deserved.
Sure, it was her who actually saved the town, but it was me who had the disadvantage yet still tried. I had the courage to do something no one else would have to save people I did not have to. She just closed her eyes and said some random hoodoo bullcrap and BAM! The ground sunk like it was going to at any second and there! Simple win! It wasn't like I got burnt to a crisp, that I risked my life for these people.
"So I was thinking about buying one of those protection runes, but then I realised I had no idea what they protect me from. Direct magic attacks, or passive ones? You know, like curses and stuff." Rin went on and on.
"SHUT UP, WILL YOU?" I snapped. Rin turned to me, her eyes now wide, staring into my soul and tearing it apart like flimsy paper. My heart sunk and I felt a shiver down my spine as she said to me in a monotone, hushed tone. "Oh?"
I pursed my lips and I shrunk under the blanket as Rin furrowed her eyebrows and slowly moved towards me. "I-I'm sorry-- I just, I--" I stammered. All I did was complain about her constant acts of inconsideration, so why is she giving me the same look she did to the thugs yesterday?
"You are 'sorry'?" She hissed at me. I nodded my head, sweating profusely. "Then go and deal with your petty needs. I want to talk, and I will. Why should I care if you want silence so can go to your dumb dreamland? Maybe you've forgotten who's the stronger of us two."
Rin climbed onto me, her knuckles bone white as she pulled my shirt's collar, pulling me closer to her. Her face was inches away from mine, her wide eyes shooting daggers, her lips tightly closed, her nose flaring. The ground began to rumble. She was definitely terrifying, considering her petite stature.
"Do you need a first-hand experience with magic?" Rin asked. I gulped. I definitely did not want to feel the wrath of such a powerful caster. I shook my head and she let go of me. A wave of relief washed over me as she got out the bed and began to chat away with the frightened nurse, who nodded and agreed with everything Rin said, for fear of being her next victim.
I lied on the white bed and pondered. Rin had saved me yesterday, and now she's threatening to end me? She's definitely a strange one, I shouldn't push her buttons too much. But if just telling her to be quiet could make her give me a death threat, then what else would make her threaten to kill someone? My head began to hurt thinking about almost everything that could possibly end me, occasionally interrupted by some hilarious ideas that popped up in my mind.
Sorry, got the wrong sauce for the dwarfchicken barbeque. Oh, oops, bought the pen with the wrong shade of blue.I had no idea why I'd ever do things such as these for her, but her family must be suffering around her.
Finally, when I decided I could not sleep with her endless stream of words haunting me, I began to simply observe my surroundings. The entire clinic was one of the few buildings which were not almost entirely made of wood, the others being the rune shops, weapon and armor blacksmith forges and bakeries. Areas in the non-caster's side of the continent were often built in an old fashioned way, usually to keep the areas around them as natural as possible so that the materials they collect were not contaminated. Non-casters can't cast magic, but they have an upper hand when it comes to getting resources and using them in their crafts; one of the main reasons they still are considered equal to the much more powerful casters. Non-casters don't take in magic energy when they are born like casters can, so the land they lived in became rich with magic, thriving while the other side lacked in natural resources.
Maybe I should be a university professor, that job pays pretty well.
I shook my head and continued my observation. The only other interesting fact about this room was the strange, leather bound book beside me. On the cover, there was a strange, silver crest in a form of a strange star and a circle. Huh. I flipped through the yellowed pages, which were filled with tall and slender words, touching one another, making it look like it was merely chicken scratches on the old, folded paper.
"Oh, hey, that's Tower's, gimme gimme!" Rin chided, slapping my hand and taking the book as if I were the child. I crossed my arms and looked at her. "What's in that?" I asked.
"Words. Were you too dumb to read it?" Rin said plainly, placing the mysterious book inside her bag.
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